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March 24, 2024

Inspirational Shorts with Dr. Ruth Best

Meet Dr. Ruth Best, Assist Dean at the California School of Education (SOE) of Alliant International University. Dr. Best participated in our Inspirational Shorts recorded during the Education 2.0 Conference, 2024 in Las Ve...

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March 26, 2024

Inspirational Shorts with Casanova Green — The First-Year College Exp…

Guest ⁠Casanova Green⁠ , director of First-Year experience at ⁠Hocking College⁠ , shares his professional knowledge and passion for ensuring community college student success beginning day one. The first-year experience is vi...

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April 22, 2024

Dr. Elsa Núñez — Leading an Elite Liberal Arts College in the Absence…

Dr. Elsa Núñez is the President of Eastern Connecticut State University , Connecticut’s only public liberal arts institution of higher education. Dr. Núñez shares her lived experiences, and those as a university president loo...

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April 29, 2024

Dr. Kevin Kumashiro — Anti-oppressive Education and the Non-neutral R…

Dr. Kevin Kumashiro , Interim Dean for the School of Education, Hofstra University , addresses the non-neutral role of schools in social equity. He explains that teaching should be seen as a collective effort, imagined differ...

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May 6, 2024

Steven Simmons—Supporting College Athletes for Financial Literacy and…

Our guest Steven Simmons , Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Nilent, NIL Enterprise Solutions , shares experiences supporting college athletes for financial literacy, wellbeing, and social media branding. Partnering w...

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May 14, 2024

Andrés Acebo—Leading NJCU from Crisis to Recovery to Revitalization

Our guest ⁠⁠Andrés Acebo⁠⁠ , Interim President of ⁠⁠New Jersey City University⁠⁠ shares how he and the NJCU community have forged a new mission and vision for what he calls a “Student Ready” college. President Acebo stresses ...

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May 20, 2024

Dr. Lisa Vollendorf—Championing Equity and Access through Quality Onl…

Our guest, Dr. Lisa Vollendorf , is the 6th President of SUNY Empire State University . Did you know that Empire State is New York’s only public, online institution of higher education? Dr. Vollendorf shares the origin of Emp...

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May 28, 2024

Dr. Ramon Goings—Supporting Doctoral Students for Successful Disserta…

Our Guest, ⁠Dr. Ramon Goings⁠ , is the founder of ⁠Done Dissertation⁠ , a consulting firm aimed at helping more than 1000 students successfully complete their dissertations in one year or less. Dr. Goings shares how his exper...

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June 13, 2024

Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig—Advancing Innovation and Access to Higher E…

Our guest, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig , is Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Western Michigan University (WMU). He is an internationally known scholar and a nationally recognized advocate for educational effect...

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June 26, 2024

Drs. Miriam Feldblum and Felecia Russell—Advocating for Immigrant Equ…

Our Guests are Drs. Miriam Feldblum , Co-founder and Executive Director, and Felecia Russell , Director of the Higher Ed Immigration Portal, both of the P residents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration . Their episod...

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July 19, 2024

Dr. Margaret (Terry) Orr—Advancing Educational Leadership Preparation…

Dr. Margaret Terry Orr is Professor at Fordham University and EdD program director and Chair of the Division of Educational Leadership, Administration, and Policy within the Graduate School of Education . She explains that im...

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July 27, 2024

Drs. Kimberly A. White-Smith and Sean Green—Transforming Communities …

Our guests Drs. Kimberly A. White-Smith and Sean Green are Professor and Dean and Assistant Dean for Innovation and Community Engagement, respectively for the University of San Diego’s (USD) School of Leadership and Education...

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Aug. 12, 2024

Dr. Lynn M. Gangone—Leading for High Quality Educator Preparation

Guest, Dr. Lynn M. Gangone , is President and CEO of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). Dr. Gangone recounts her legacy at AACTE and the association’s leadership in and impact on educator prep...

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Aug. 19, 2024

Dr. Christopher A. Koch—Leading Equity and Effectiveness in Educator …

Our guest, Dr. Christopher (Chris) A. Koch, is President of the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) . The council is comprised of more than 550 member institutions. This episode is part one in a two-p...

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Sept. 3, 2024

Dr. Mark LaCelle-Peterson—Leading Equity and Effectiveness in Educato…

Our guest, Dr. Mark LaCelle-Peterson , is a founding team member and President of the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP) . Mark addresses the founding of AAQEP, responding to a demand for greate...

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Sept. 18, 2024

Inspirational Shorts with Dr. Costonzo Bryant-Martin— @CAEPCon on Gen…

Our guest, Dr. Costonzo Bryant-Martin is Assistant Professor of Education and Director of the Call Me MiSTER Program at South Carolina State University (SCSU). For this Inspirational Short recorded during the fall 2024 CAEPCo...

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Sept. 24, 2024

Inspirational Shorts with Drs. LaVada Taylor and Nancy Grim — @CAEPCo…

Our guests are Drs. LaVada Taylor and Nancy Grim are Dean and Professor, respectively, at Chicago State University (CSU). Both are with the School of Education . For this Inspirational Short recorded during the fall 2024 CAEP...

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Oct. 19, 2024

Dr. Chezare A. Warren—Centering Possibilities in Education for Black …

Our Guest, Dr. Chezare A. Warren , is Associate Professor of education policy with a secondary faculty appointment in the department of teaching and learning at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College . He addresses the role ...

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Nov. 14, 2024

Dr. Carlota Ocampo—Leading Academic Success, Upholding the Catholic T…

Our guest, Dr. Carlota Ocampo , is Provost of Trinity Washington University . She describes Trinity as a unicorn, the nation’s first Catholic liberal arts college for women that is a minority serving institution (MSI). She is...

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Dec. 17, 2024

Dr. Monika W. Shealey—Temple University, Cultivating Diamonds in the …

Our guest, Dr. Monika Williams Shealey, is Dean of Temple University's College of Education and Human Development (CEHD). Dr. Shealey has the distinction of being the first female dean in history of the College of Education a...

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Jan. 6, 2025

Evalyn Gleason—Tackling the Teacher Shortage in New York with TEACHNY

Our guest, Evalyn Gleason , is senior program manager for TEACHNY. TEACHNY is a state-level subsidiary of TEACH.org . The organization has extended its annual impact goal by registering more than55,000 prospective teachers on...

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Jan. 19, 2025

Cheryl Delk-Le Good and Dr. Adil Bentahar—The World of English Langua…

Our guests, Cheryl Delk-Le Good , Executive Director of EnglishUSA , and Dr. Adil Bentahar , Associate Professor at the University of Delaware (UD), explore the world of English language learning for international students. T...

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Feb. 3, 2025

Brent Miller—Designing Educational Spaces of Learning with HED

Our guest, Brent Miller , is a highly respected Senior Architect and Managing Principal at HED , one of the oldest and largest integrated architecture-engineering design firms in the United States. His work focuses on develop...

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May 7, 2025

Joe Sallustio and Elvin Freytes—Driving Excellence in Higher Educatio…

Our guests, Dr. Joe Sallustio and Elvin Freytes are co-founders and hosts of The EdUP Experience podcast, America's leading platform for higher education insights, featuring interviews with prominent global leaders. Joe stand...

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